Free Markets

The key assumption of Michael J. Sandel's What Money Can't Buy is that the market is corrupting.

Self-made billionaire Sheldon Adelson says the secret to his success was "never knowing anything" about the businesses he entered.

The heroic fighter for liberty <em>out</em> of power is often tempted, once he has the reins of command, to rationalize that <i>now</i> "order" must be imposed &mdash; by him.

A central bank confers no benefit on society at large. 

The 99%, under the thrall of unsound ideas, are once again oppressing themselves.

John Tomasi does not in Free Market Fairness call himself a bleeding-heart libertarian, but his excellent book offers the best defense of that position.

When government restricts the honorable activities of speculators, it removes checks and balances that the free market places on supply and demand.

The current culture of debt and inefficiency can be replaced by one that teaches students responsibility, hard work, and frugality.

The logic of liberty had drastic implications. If the individual conscience is supreme in religious matters, why shouldn't it extend to civil matters as well?

The lizard part of our brains pushes aside the cognitive areas when we make investment decisions.